Peter Guber Quotes
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
Quotes to Explore
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
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It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Sometimes I would buy two of the same thing just to give my friends.
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People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.
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Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
